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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: else's, when the Jews' genuine stock is used up), inscribed with
the neat and appropriate legend - which indeed is popular through
all that land, and which, I hope, you will learn to translate in
due time and to perpend likewise:-
"VICTRIX CAUSA DIIS PLACUIT, SED VICTA PUELLIS."
When he got into the middle of the town, they all set on him at
once, to show him his way; or rather, to show him that he did not
know his way; for as for asking him what way he wanted to go, no
one ever thought of that.
But one pulled him hither, and another poked him thither, and a
third cried -
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